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Updated: May 22, 2025
But no one could deny that the gentle kindness, the beaming compassion, that irradiated her features as she tended the fast-sinking invalid, rendered her at such times absolutely beautiful angelised her, to use an expression of my wife's, with whom she was a prime favourite.
It was by their voices, as they reached her ear from the street, that the fast-sinking faculties of Antonina had been startled, though not revived; and there, on the broad pavement, lay these citizens of a fallen city a congregation of pestilence and crime a starving and an awful band!
Then we pulled for shore, towing the bows of the fast-sinking buss with us till they grounded in the mud, and even as her stern swung with the tide across the channel she lurched and sank. "We should have bided in her and fought," growled Thord. "Now in five minutes we shall see the bottom ripped out of our own ship by our own deed."
The Chilians therefore reopened their fire, and the Blanco Encalada rushed up close alongside the now fast-sinking monitor, intending to ram her, but was stayed in her deadly purpose by the exhibition of fresh signals of surrender.
Floating gently onward, but with a velocity slightly augmented, the voyager, after many short turns, finds his progress apparently barred by a gigantic gate or rather door of burnished gold, elaborately carved and fretted, and reflecting the direct rays of the now fast-sinking sun with an effulgence that seems to wreath the whole surrounding forest in flames.
'It's a sweet little cottage, she said, shading her eyes from the fast-sinking orb, and then turning them on the tiny house 'but I dare say you'll not be here long, Phoebe. Mrs. Fenwick started. 'John told Mr. Harrock he'd pay him rent for it till next Easter. Miss Mason laughed. 'Are you going to let John go wasting his time here till next Easter? The arm she held moved involuntarily.
"Even the animals," says Sturt, "appeared to regard them with dismay." Over plains and sand dunes, the former full of yawning cracks and holes, the party pushed on, subsisting on precarious pools of muddy water and fast-sinking native wells; until, on the 3rd of September, Flood, the stockman, who was riding ahead, held up his hat and called aloud to them that a large creek was in sight.
He walked heavily, bending his head, his eyes half closed as though in bodily pain, the icy pavement rang like iron under his tread, the frozen air pierced through him, as his sorrow pierced his heart, the gloom of the fast-sinking winter's day deepened as the darkness in his own soul. He, who was always alone, knew at last what loneliness could mean.
"Draw lots, men, we are brothers now in trouble, and none shall have advantage over the other." The lots were drawn, and then the master proceeded to divide between the two crews the stores of the fast-sinking ship.
When Jan had reached a bit of rising ground, from which the house he had just left was visible, he turned round to look at it again. Master Swift was standing where he had left him, gazing out into the distance with painful intensity. The fast-sinking sun lit up his heavy face and figure with a transforming glow, and hung a golden mist above the meads, at which he stared like one spellbound.
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